Posted on 05/20/2009 4:09:15 PM PDT by lewisglad
I am supposed to advise you that there is electricity in the Washington swamp air, a ringing tension, a sharp static, a fibrous charge that will explode at any moment. I should compare this moment to Manila, circa 1975, when Muhammed Ali was cavorting about with a rubber gorilla, taunting Joe Frazier into furious focus before the big fight.
Except this time the heavyweight champion of the world is played by former Vice President Dick Cheney, an old man with a persistent ticker and a commitment to steamrolling history's judgment like so many pinhead public servants in the broken bureaucracy. His toy gorilla is fear of the unknown, the attacks that never happened and are sure to come.
If Ali had the Nation of Islam to back him up, Cheney has the Nation Of Rebublicans, such as it remains--a cavalcade of aspiring tough guys, Newt Gingrich, John Boehner, the talk radio gabbers. In recent weeks, following Cheney's lead, they have settled on national security as their best card left to play against Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and the bunch. And so they are hammering hard, trying to disrupt the cool of Mister Cool, President O, who I can now posit as Frazier, the workhorse, his head down, focused on the fight.
Such is the set up that is expected of me, a Washington correspondent, at a moment like this. For there is a showdown scheduled tomorrow--Obama and Cheney both giving separate speeches on national security. All the narrative elements are there to get America to pay attention, a top-billed clash, a battle, a contest of generations, of ideologies, of facts. This is the story line you will likely hear for the next 36 hours on cable and on the web, minus, of course, my strained boxing metaphor
(Excerpt) Read more at swampland.blogs.time.com ...
Oh, pulllleeeaaassseeee....Obambi is a weenie....hope his teleprompter doesn’t misfire...or he won’t KNOW what His national security policy is.
Michael Scherer = butt kissing boot licker.
Obama is going to be playing tennis ... Cheney is giving a speech.
former Vice President Dick Cheney, an old man
So disrespectful. Byrd, Reid, Kennedy, et al...what are they, young bucks??
I kind of think a pinhead will deflate a hot air balloon 999 out of a 1000 times.
Almost, but not quite. 0bama will be WATCHING a tennis game (head turning from telepromter left to teleprompter right).
; )
What a drama queen. That said, Cheney will cite compelling facts, the 0ne will read vague platitudes from a teleprompter. BO’s team has got to be regretting the executive order on Gitmo (and Pelosi’s stupidity). I’m not...
The First Thug cannot watch the game as his neck is permanently frozen, causing him to always look up at a 45 degree angle.
He has the TOTUS watch the game so that he knows what to say.
Yup. Nobody ever calls Cheney a great orator. He just sits there reciting facts all the time.
More like the political matchup of Mike Tyson vs. Richard Simmons.
what’s the setting for these 2 speeches?
Thanks for posting ‘the 10 ways’. I LOVE it! I’ve sent it to all my friends.
That he does. Convincingly, IMHO. He can also stick a knife in his target, turn the blade and still sound so very civil. 0bama’s team cannot be happy the VP is on the warpath. Cheney is in fact governing on the issue it seems...
Well no, Mikey, what I expect out of you is the same throne-sniffing sycophancy I'm getting.
Why are we so riled by this article.
It has been over a quarter of a century since Time published an unbiased article on any serious subject.
Remember how long it took to clean up the blood after the Cheney/Edwards debate? They had to get ServPro.
Yes, but Cheney is not COOL!
If JQP got enough exposure to Cheney himself & his words could be juxtaposed along side BO’s, a lot of Americans would snap out of their comas.
I would love to see that picture show up on BO’s teleprompter in the middle of a “reading”! He would CRAP!
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